Women unprepared for abortion pill’s ‘excruciating pain’ and immense ‘blood clots’

Live Action News has featured personal testimonials from the Silent No More Awareness campaign, with women sharing their traumatic experiences in taking the abortion pill.

The abortion pill is often described as a “safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy,” at least according to Planned Parenthood. But is it? Recently, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study that analyzed insurance data codes for over 865,000 cases in which women took mifepristone (the abortion pill) and found that “serious adverse events” for the drug occurred at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug. Nearly 11% of women (10.93%) were reported to have experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening complications.

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“The worst pain ever,” “deep depression,” and incomplete abortion

Dora shared that there was nothing simple or easy about her experience:

I was pressured by my boyfriend and his friends to have an abortion. I was convinced that we were too young to have a baby, that we had our whole lives ahead of us. We scheduled an appointment where they told me that my best option would be the abortion pill.

I went home and after taking the second dose, I began to experience the worst pain ever. The pain was so intense that I was blacking in and out of consciousness. At one point I bit down on a towel to keep from screaming out loud.

After everything was finally over, I fell into a deep depression. I wanted nothing to do with the memory of what happened. It wasn’t until I went to my check up that I found out some terrible news.

The abortion pill was not successful and I would need an emergency D&C to complete it.

“I also lost a part of me”

Jessica had no idea how much she would regret taking the abortion pill:

When I went to the clinic I felt embarrassed. I was given the abortion pill and was told I may get a few cramps. I was not told the excruciating pain I would feel for hours until the sac went through.

My abortion was explained to me as something that was common and normal. It was not explained to me the emotional effects and regret I would experience long after the abortion was over — not to mention the initial abortion felt like I was giving actual birth to a child.

I remember when the sac finally left my body. I felt it pass through and I cried. I didn’t want to flush my baby down the toilet, but I had no choice. That night I also lost a part of me. Literally.

At the time I felt it was the right thing to do. I was still legally married to someone else and in a complicated relationship with the father of my aborted child. I felt I would be looked down upon since my family was Christian. So abortion seemed like my only option. Now I realize it was not. I can’t help but think about how I could have raised my babies and would have been just fine.

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“The most painful experience of my life”

Briana said it took more than two months for her to recover physically from the abortion pill:

I was given the RU-486 abortion pills the same day I went to the abortion clinic. They didn’t explain the process to me beyond when to take the pills. Side effects, possible complications, and what to expect during the abortion were not even mentioned.

I had the abortion alone in my apartment, and it was by far the most painful experience of my life. It took at least two months for my body to recover.

Immediately afterwards, despite the pain, I felt relief that I was no longer pregnant. This relief was immediately followed by guilt, which I quickly tried to numb away with drugs, alcohol, and sex. I wanted to put the abortion behind me as quickly as possible and never think about it again.

“Blood clots the size of oranges”

Teri nearly tried to find her aborted child among the large blood clots she passed into the toilet:

The minute I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, he responded, “you know you’re getting an abortion, right?” As I was on a medication that hadn’t been tested on pregnant women, he quickly told me he’d never forgive me if I had a baby with birth defects, adding that it wouldn’t be fair to the child. I was scared. He was the only person I felt close to so I listened to him. 

During the abortion, I experienced pain and regret, immediately. I took the medical abortion pill. I passed blood clots the size of oranges. I felt sick as I flushed my baby down the toilet. I paused for a moment, wondering if I should try to find my baby in the mess of blood clots.

These stories make it clear that the pro-abortion narrative of safe and easy abortions is false. It cannot be safe for the preborn child who is killed, and the mothers are often traumatized by the horrific experience, with some seeing the bodies of the aborted children.